{"id":605,"date":"2015-11-10T18:06:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/?p=605"},"modified":"2015-11-10T18:06:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:06:35","slug":"employment-law-update-parental-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/employment-law-update-parental-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Law Update &#8211; Parental Leave extended to Grandparents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222;\">Shared parental leave and pay scheme to be extended to working grandparents<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; font-stretch: normal !important; orphans: auto; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span class=\"ms-rtethemeforecolor-2-5\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222;\">The Government has announced that it is planning to extend the current scheme of shared parental leave and pay to include working grandparents by 2018.\u00a0 A consultation is expected to be launched on the details of the extension in the first half of 2016, with the new legislation expected to come into force in 2018.\u00a0 The Government hopes that the proposed change will increase flexibility and choice in parental leave arrangements and support working parents with the costs of childcare during the first year of a child&#8217;s life. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; font-stretch: normal !important; orphans: auto; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span class=\"ms-rtethemeforecolor-2-5\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222;\">Evidence suggests that nearly 2 million grandparents have given up work, reduced their hours or taken time off work to help cut down childcare costs<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; font-stretch: normal !important; orphans: auto; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span class=\"ms-rtethemeforecolor-2-5\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #222222;\">.<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/admin-chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/admin-chart-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"admin chart\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/admin-chart-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/admin-chart.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared parental leave and pay scheme to be extended to working grandparents The Government has announced that it is planning to extend the current scheme of shared parental leave and pay to include working grandparents by 2018.\u00a0 A consultation is expected to be launched on the details of the extension in the first half of 2016, with the new legislation expected to come into force in 2018.\u00a0 The Government hopes that the proposed change will increase flexibility and choice in parental leave arrangements and support working parents with the costs of childcare during the first year of a child&#8217;s life&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"app","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","tag-employment-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}